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  So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyve191dlko

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  Is there ever a week where this doesn’t come in handy?

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  So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.

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  Oh Nilai, why must you test me so? https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1000344/cloudflare-matthew-prince-google-zero-ai-web-advertising

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  Kudos to the Guardian for this description

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  How come the far right stop the boats scum bags who attacked the infrastructure of Dover this morning weren’t arrested and charged with terrorism offences?

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  I get putting "Lake America" on US users' maps. Whatever, it's his country now. But why does the rest of the world – all of which call it Lake Ontario – have to have "Lake America/Lake Ontario"? If Iran decides to call the Straight of Hormuz "The Straight of Trumps Defeat" are Apple going to change it on US maps? https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/01/apple-maps-renaming-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-following-trump-order/

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  This never gets old. https://www.reaction.life/p/britain-looks-like-brexit

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  @jason@click.ba.it Ha!

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  "If you’re under the impression that these models are 'glorified autocomplete' or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that." No, really, do. Just because some dweeb is using them to make obviously-fake images or bad poetry doesn't mean they're not capable of much, much worse things. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

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  Ahh, Raise the Colours. The best of British patriots, who councils around the country appear to be tying themselves in knots to avoid dealing with. But who are they? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/26/birmingham-council-raise-the-colours-flags-city

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  Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for the murder of British people and the government does nothing.

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  Imagine if instead of pumping billions into AI we gave the money to artists. What a flowering of culture we would gain.

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  I love the FT, but this paragraph is a classic case of being one-eyed about reality. Yes, Burnham is being nostalgic: but in the same sentence is “the reasons Thatcherism was needed in the first place.” Which, of course, is another form of nostalgia. https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/eb8f8782-20d1-4be6-94a0-b4cb28c6faa9

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  I had exactly the same reaction to Arrival and I know that I'm not the only one https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3mqvcmd7hpk2z

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  Curious person: "Hey Ian, you're a journalist! Your living has long been paid for by advertising. Why do you use an ad blocker?" Me:

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@decembr14/116900950529910384 Accepted.

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  Why I can’t bring myself to read Neal Asher these days.

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  Ever day, in every way, I thank my lucky stars that I bought 32Gb of RAM and a 4Tb SSD long before the AI idiots made it more expensive than rubies.

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  I really like that @kagihq@mastodon.social has a feature called "SlopStop" that lets you downrank or exclude sites which use a lot of AI generated content.

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  Leeches. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/28/1-in-every-11-spent-uk-public-contractors-private-equity

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  RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116825465041766357 This, I suspect, will be a story that recurs. And as with most corporate errors, management will not be accountable at all.

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  No. https://www.ft.com/content/6536f2f5-e365-4594-a928-8c1d5ac2e7b6?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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  Well @brokenbottleboy is always good value but I love his latest piece on the completely fake “Farage banned from Desert Island Discs!” story. The sooner people realise that the Mail makes stuff up the better. https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/?utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web

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  We really are at the end phase of the decline of the American republic. Gold ballrooms, statues to Caesar, praetorian guard. Next we will have Didius Julianus buying the presidency.

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  You’re not required to disclose you have a GRC but you can’t use the facilities of the gender you’re recognised as, thus making it obvious that you have a GRC. Seriously who writes this shit, and do they ever actually bother reading it to find out how stupid it is? https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xurjtu2wa2akyi64gab34ahg/post/3mnd44iyzys2i

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  This. This x1000. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xfq2h4jv25kw3fzzgwjxli46/post/3mndkx4ysam27

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  One of the things I enjoyed most about my degree was doing some astronomy. I was a humanities student but my minor was astronomy and I was taught by the lovely Iain Nicolson. I think about Iain every time I see the full moon https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/IainNicolson.pdf https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:67bgg4j34njbopitm62cvddy/post/3mndksvwamk2g

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  That's it lads the robots are revolting

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  “Young men are all right wing now!” Erm, no. 30% of young men (18-24) would vote Green, whilst just 12% would vote Reform. https://www.instagram.com/p/DUn9esviFX_/